pyodbc: How to retry to recover from Transient errors?

Question

I\'ve an API hosted on Flask. It runs behind a Tornado server. What is happening is that sometimes changes made on the UI are not reflected in the database. Also a few of th

Answer 1

Per my experience, I think may be you can try to use the code below to implement the retry logic.

import time

retry_flag = True
retry_count = 0
while retry_flag and retry_count < 5:
  try:
    cursor.execute(query, [args['type'], args['id']])
    retry_flag = False
  except:
    print "Retry after 1 sec"
    retry_count = retry_count + 1
    time.sleep(1)

Hope it helps.